MasukAnd then it was just us. Our family. I picked up Arianna while Tristan got Adrian, and we carried them upstairs to their nursery. The room had been redecorated twice as they'd grown—first to accommodate their crawling, then again when they started pulling up on furniture. Now it was a mix of cribs
Chapter 214 Athena I looked at Adrian in my arms, then at Arianna in Tristan's. They'd grown so much—both walking now (well, Arianna walked, Adrian preferred to crawl at high speed). Both babbling constantly in their own twin language that we couldn't quite decipher. Both showing more personality
Chapter 213 Athena The backyard was full of chaos—the beautiful, loud, messy kind of chaos that came from having a joint first birthday party for twins. I stood on the back porch, watching the scene unfold before me with a smile that felt permanently fixed on my face. Colorful balloons bobbed
Chapter 212 "Mama's sorry," I soothed, bouncing her gently. "But we need to figure this out before you touch any more plants, okay?" "Can I see?" Lily asked, pushing past the adults to get closer to the plant. "Wow, it's so pretty! And it smells good too." She was right. The plant was giving off
Chapter 211 Athena "The plant," I said, knowing I wasn't making sense but unable to form coherent thoughts. "The dying plant in the living room. She touched it. Tristan, she touched it and it came back to life." Silence. All three men just stared at me. "What?" Orion finally asked. "The plant
Chapter 210 Athena Six months. Six months since Adrian and Arianna had come home from the NICU, and I still sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to check that they were breathing. The monitors helped, their steady beeping had become the soundtrack of our lives, but the fear never comple
Chapter 83 Athena's POV These questions swirled around in my head as I got ready for bed, but I still didn't have any answers. The next morning, I woke up having almost forgotten about everything Tristan had said the night before. Maybe it was because I'd gotten so used to him changing his mind
Chapter 74 Athena's POV Jess. His dead mate. The woman he'd never gotten over, never stopped loving. He wasn't making love to me. He was making love to a ghost, to a memory, to someone who would never come back. In his drunken state, he'd confused me for her, and everything - the tenderness,
Chapter 75 As we approached the first major turn, I leaned into it just like Derek had taught me, feeling Ciara respond perfectly to my movements. We were flying together, bike and rider as one, the world blurring around us. The track stretched ahead, each curve and straightaway a new challenge
Chapter 77 Tristan POV The last few weeks had been complete torture. Every day felt like walking through broken glass barefoot, each step more painful than the last. It had gotten worse after what happened between Athena and me, so much worse that some mornings I couldn't bring myself to get ou







